Delhi

street food

Aloo Paranthas are prepared at Devender Tea Stall near IIT, in Hauz Khas. This is a true Delhi street food institution! See the piles of eggs in trays.

street food

Skewers of juicy chicken are placed on the grill, for being bacbecued Indian style, into tandoori chicken tikkas. See the smoke rise up in slow motion as the skewers are rotated for even cooking.

highway

Kadhi Chawal is being sold for only 5 rupees by Help and Support Foundation in New Delhi near AIIMS Hospital. People are buying and eating kadhi chawal.

festival · music

Flame of the Forest, a fusion band from Singapore performs in India at the Delhi International Arts Festival. Delhi International Arts Festival India’s ‘Signature Festival’ is the longest multi arts, multi venue cultural festival.

festival · music

Not just an art fair but a festival in all its entirety. Every nook and corner of the mela or fair is lines with something new, fresh or simply jaw-dropping.

With the Corona Lockdown relaxed and business activities slowly climbing back to action, roadside tea vendors are no exception. A vendor makes steaming hot tea for customers near a roadside in South Delhi.

highway

If ever you are in South Delhi and wish to commute elsewhere this location will pop up frequently. With its vast network to different locations, Ring Road is a busy road network. This is a stretch at Safdarjung near AIIMS.

When humans are suffering without employment and sustenance, do canines have to suffer too? A few samaritans did their bit for dogs and cows alike, on these lean days....

bazaar · highway

The bustling middle class market of Sarojini Nagar, a very busy place in Delhi. Here, we see traffic, parked two wheelers, playing children, shops, salesmen, vendors, shoppers, a busy park, a Samsonite showroom and the chaos and bustle of t…

river

Nigambodh Ghat in Delhi, the last journey and destination for many Covid stricken Indians. Those were sad days in April-May 2021 when India ran out of firewood for its Covid deceased, thanks to the Chinese invasion of Delhi's skies with bio…

highway

Strange how many kinds of masks are vended in Delhi, and not just for air pollution and Covid caution! These absurd masks (for or air pollution to Covid!) have become quite a selling point at traffic lights.

festival

The bustling Wahid Biryani food stall, proudly known as the "Pride of Lucknow," during an outdoor cultural exhibition in Delhi, India.

wildlife · birds

Rosy Starlings or Rosy Pastors and a Magpie Robin seem to be calling in the backdrop as this hariyal or Green Pigeon preens itself, digests the Ficus fruit in its stomach, processes it from its gizzard and simultaneously poops it out from t…

wildlife · birds

Among the major cities of the world, the national Capital has the highest density of black kites (Milvus migrans govinda).

flowers

A flock of juvenile Teetars busy with seeds on the ground. The flower bed looks plowed from incessant pecking and digging. Nothing is going to stop them from this pleasure at the moment, not even the camera.

birds · wildlife

Look down the open gape of a birdie! his Common Myna has encountered another problem along with the immense heat in Delhi park. Notice the bird's tongue stuck to the tup of the beak and the beak a big gaping mess.

wildlife · birds

Camouflaged in the mud, this titar family is enjoying it's time in the mud at the wildfilmsindia preserve in Delhi...

birds · wildlife

Love among the tota kind. Love is in the air in Delhi during spring as birds come out and show off to potential partners of the same species. A male parakeet is doing its best to woo the female by feeding.

wildlife · birds

A traditional bird-feeding activity in a public square, where a local man scoops yellow corn kernels from a large burlap sack and scatters them across the ground.

politics · old town

Republic Day is the name of a holiday in several countries to commemorate the day when they became republics.

hills · politics

Beru Pako is an old Garhwali-Kumaoni hill song cum tune from the Uttarakhand hills, about the Himalayan Hawk Cuckoo bird singing about the kaphal berries being ready and ripe to eat.

highway · ceremony

An aerial view of No. 5 Ashoka Road in Lutyens' Delhi circle of New Delhi city. The venue is all dressed up for a Big Fat Delhi wedding, in reds and much illumination.